Re: "Ninja Servers"

[Neil Moore <neil () droopy com>]

alan wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Jun 2006, 09Sparky () gmail com wrote:
>
> > Does anyone know what "Ninja Servers" are?
>
> Are they cooler than "Pirate servers"?
>
> > I have to do an internal vulnerability assessment against them ,but I 
> > currently have no other information as to what they are.
>
> Who told you you had to look for them? Ask for clearification.
>
> I would assume that they are servers that do not respond to pings.  
> nmap should help you find those.
If you are on the same subnet as they are.. ping/nmap the subnet and 
then look to see if you have a mac-address and ip address  in your arp 
table that did not respond to a ping/nmap etc. 
Those will be your sneaky/stealthy servers.

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